IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 8 Astrometry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 46 Astronomy Education & Development (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 55 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.4 - Acceleration of particles
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.2 - Balloons, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.9 - Time
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity
7 - Planetary systems: 7.1 - Earth, 7.3 - Comets, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.11 - Stars: evolution